§ 16-13. Established

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Every individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation, institution and governmental unit, and every combination of
any of the foregoing, operating a hospital shall be entitled to a lien for all reasonable charges for hospital care, treatment
and maintenance of ill or injured persons upon any and all causes of action, suits, claims, counterclaims and demands accruing
to the persons to whom such care, treatment or maintenance are furnished, or accruing to the legal representatives of such
persons, and upon all judgments, settlements and settlement agreements rendered or entered into by virtue thereof, on account
of illness or injuries giving rise to such causes of action, suits, claims, counterclaims, demands, judgment, settlement or
settlement agreement and which necessitate or shall have necessitated such hospital care, treatment and maintenance.